Laminating method and article.



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liAMEs n.' TEW, 0E AKRON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR To THE B. E. GooDEICH COMPANY, or NEW YORK, N. Y.,'A coRPoEATIoN or NEW, YORK. u Y

LAMINATTNG METHOD AND ARTICLE.

T all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that'I, JAMES D. TEW, "a`citiff Yzen of the United States, residing at Akron,

in the county of Summit and State of Ohio,-

have invented a certain new and useful Laminating Method and Article, of which thefollowing is a specification.-

This invention relates to the art of making pneumatictire carcasses or other laminated rubberized lfabric structures,-and itsobje'ct is to provide one or more of the rubberized cord or other fabric plies with av suitable marking'by which a superposed 'stripor strips of rubber orother material may be "accurately located in 'the middleof p said ply or in any other predetermined position thereon, the process being preferably such that said marking is automatically Aformed von 'the surfaceof ,the ply' in thecourse of manufacture of the latter. t

Of the accompanying drawings, i Figure l is a side elevation showing the mode of forming and marking a rubberized y cord strip orbandin accordanceV with my in- ,so of cord plies.;

vention. l

F ig. 2 is 'a flattened or developed section on the line 2f-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view showingthe application of a rubber strip `between the'.

marking ridges on the outer one 'of a pair In the drawings, 10 is drical drum or mandrel adapted to be placed in a lathe and to have wound thereon a cylinder of cord 11 which is faced, .covered or coated with vulcanizable rubber compound in any suitable manner, either in the form I Speccation of Letters Patent. 'Patented Da, l@ R91 53 I Apneati mea ,July 13,1918. seria1N o.244,s1o. v

laid together in the ,form of an endless flat 'band'.upon a collapsible drum 1.5, the strips being separately laidone upon the other,

andeach having its ends butted together.'

to have the ply or plies, whose margins are y to lie respectively inside and outside ofthe bead cores, stuck together along their middle A zone Vand free at their margins for the' insertion of said bead cores. To this end, 'and also for the purpose of. providing cushion rubber between the plies, a thin `strip of unvulcanized rubber-,compound 1.6 4is applied to the middle of the first-laid pair of plies asshown in Fig. 3. The. specific purpose of my invention in this connection is to provide one or more positioning marks for the strip 16, without requiring a separate operation `such as marking with a pointed instrument lan elongated cylins of rubber facing sheets or rubber. solution applied lto the drum' and to the cord cylin- A der, or 'as a covering or sheath upon each strand, applied before the cord is Wound upon the drum, the last-mentioned method and a Vruler while the cord strip is extended flat.

'Accordingly' I .integrally mold or emboss uponl that face of the cord bandll to which 'the rubber strip 16 is to be applied, a pair of rubber ridges 17 parallel to the side edges 'of the cord strip and .spaced apart a distance equal to the width of the 'rubber strip 16, The formation-0f these ridges 4is ef'- f'ected by cutting two shallow grooves 18 in lthe outerpsurface ofthemetal ydrum cover 10a, between and parallel to the turns of the A knife-guidinggroove/12.' The plastic rubbeing preferred. Thesurface ofthedrum is formed by a'sheet- 10 of zinc or otherif.

suitable metal in which ifs cut a steep-pitched helical groove 12, preferably crossing the cords atan angle of 450 `and adapted to.v

guide the point of a knife 13` which is used to 'slit the cord cylinder,` as indicated. in

Fig. 1. The resulting'wide strip or band 14' is then peeled off and ready to be `incorpo,-

ber which covers the cords 1L enters these grooves 18 when the cord is wound upon the rdrum, so,l as to mold .the ridges'upon the ,inner Asurface ofthe cord sheet, the said vridges retaining their. formi when the strip "14 is peeled from. the drum. These ridges rated in a pneumaticlvtire carcass .Gr..other -I structure. lny Fig. 3, two tsuch strips or tire' forming plies (which would halvetheir cords slanted in opposite directions) are shown may be formed upon" all of the plies in the tire carcass, and-are utilized on that ply or plies upon which the rubbel` strip 16' is placed, although it would obviously be possible to use them -or a similar set o fv 'ridges as visual guides for positioning any otherV lamination, such as the breaker, tread or drum 15, stretchedgover the`tire-forming core, stitched down`thereon,' and a second pair of plies stretched over.' the coreand stitched down,- or the eomplete carcass could. be laid up on the' drum 15 and .then formed into tire shape.

l. strip offabric forv makin-g'laminat'ed structures, said strip having .a raw rubber i surface formed with a raised marking interx mediate its side edges` as afguide forpositioning a s uperposed strip er lamination.

f 2i A strip of-abrie formaking"laminated' structures, said strip ha\ ng=ia surface of Vraw rubber on Whieh are integrally formed,

.marks for a-superposed .strip z 'between and -parallel'rWiththe edges ef the strip, two vlongitudinallyf-extending ridges of rubber' `adapted `toA act as vpo t'ioning v .iatiau `3. In the building:oflaminated'tire ci* r ,my hand this 11 day said rubberized fabrio strip, with itsedge I adjacent tosaid positioning mark.

l. In the building of laminated structures, the method which consists in winding a cylinder of rubberized cord upon a drum having a helical knife-guiding `grooveand a\ parallel molding groove, molding a ridge on the inner surface ofthe cord cylinder by means of. said molding groove` slitting the cord cylinder along the line of Said knifeguiding groove t0 form a Cord strip, peeling said strip from the drum, butting the ends of said strip to form anannular band of diagonally-extending cords with the ridged face outermost, and overlaying said annular band-with a .raw .rubber strip having one edge adjacent to said ridge.l

. In-testimony whereof I have hereunto set. of July, 19]. J AMES lDTVV. 

